On 04/21/2016 11:37 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 04/21/2016 11:20 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 06:52:47PM +0530, Selvin Durai Masilamani wrote:
>>> Hi team,
>>>>>> Security patches isn't not showing from Centos 5,6 and 7.
>>>>>> Tried Steps:
>>>>>> First I installed yum install yum-security package
>>>>>> Then I tried yum update --security
>>>>>> But getting these message
>>>>>> No need to update for security patches , 80 available
>>>>> My similar run said 2 packages available.
>>>> When I run without the --security option 2 packages are
>> available to update.
>>>> I presume those 80 available updates are not security related.
>>>> No,
>> CentOS Linux does NOT use the --security option of yum.
>> The reasons why have been discussed on this list several times.
>> You must use yum without the security options for CentOS Linux.
>> There is no way, other than maintaining your own repos and repodata, to
> get only security updates in CentOS Linux.
>> There never has been a way to do that in any version of CentOS Linux.
Here is one such thread (for reference):
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-October/012052.html
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